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I beg to disagree. I have both a BJ and a slotting cutter for the router table. The latter is almost impossible to use successfully and very limited in what you can actually do with it. You have to plunge the workpiece onto the cutter, dead parallel to the tabletop, and move it left-right...

Steve is in exalted company: Attenborough travels with several identical shirts and pairs of trousers. I think many modern documentary presenters have picked up on the same idea. I have no idea how frequently he washes them though - I don't think there are any BBC guidelines presently (but...

Apparently (and this is heresay), Makita have "cost-reduced" their BJ a lot recently. I have the old one (3901), and that is very nicely made - well machined and plunges smoothly. I have also used it for weird things such as cutting rebates (essentially as a plunging circular saw, which it is...

Ah, so it's Stonehenge he'll be wanting then... :-)

He doesn't need to do what he thinks he needs to do - I suspect. I await the reply.

This is just a horn-loaded speaker, isn't it? How much power (RMS, in the relevant low frequency band please) will be going into it? If this is a HiFi design, read on, as it may save you a lot of effort. If it's high-power PA (or instrument amplification), all bets are off... I suspect you are...

For free access to _huge_ experience in all aspects of finishing (using mostly traditional materials though), I'd recommend watching a few (dozen!) of Tom Johnson's videos on YouTube. He's my early morning (breakfast) tonic... :-) He often uses a thinned shellac first, before applying colour...

CNC Designs's shipping to Bristol was ridiculously inexpensive, to the extent I was worried it might arrive damaged. In fact it was very well packed and in perfect condition. Why do you want such a large area as 8'x4' - it doesn't sound like normal usage. The CNC designs table is bigger than an...

I've followed this with interest. Last year I bought an XL 700 when there was an offer, but beyond some test cuts, I've had little chance to use it and the weather (amongst other things) presently keeps me, or at least any tool I don't want going rusty, out of the workshop. In November...

I have a CNC Designs one (as above). I like it a lot. I bought the plywood version, and it is really nice quality, but I suspect the MRMDF one would be even more stable. I should have asked them before buying. It was well packaged for shipping and overall really reasonable. If you do go for...

Hmm, three quid from China or 30 quid from MTMC in Yeovil? Tough call. One will take a month, may be stopped in customs and might be poor quality. If there is a problem, you have wasted all that time and are no better off at the end of things. Realistically, if it's not right, you are back to...

That's not a stupid question! E. (who would also like to know... :-) )

Larger aperture should help a lot though. f/1.8 sounds like a 50mm lens (I did ask what lens you're using...). That's a bit wide (short focal length) for what you want to do. I'd use a 135mm at a minimum, but the longer the better within reason. Touching the window glass with the lens barrel...

Card+ hole is a good quick idea ( black on both sides). If you get really keen, Google for "Rosco CineFoil" (matte black coated thick aluminium foil). It's what pro lighting and camera people use and it is really, really good. It's also a bit pricey, but I've had a roll that's lasted years, as...

We had an European Tree Bee nest in one of our birdboxes a couple of years ago. They aren't dangerous and are "solitary" (well, not as numerous as wasps anyway!). It seriously p***ed off the Blue-**** (who apparently don't eat Tree Bees), and I only discovered it when I took the box down. The...

Out of curiosity, what lens are you using? You probably have two or three distinct issues with photography through a window. Several have been mentioned, but to summarise: 1. The glass: optical flatness (or as close as poss) will help, but it's not the biggest issue by far. I asked about your...

My Kity 419 planer/thicknesser has a similar open stand to many light-weight "construction" table saws. I made the mobile base a bit bigger all-round than the legs, so that the castors/wheels didn't reduce the area of the base when they swivelled round. The wheels can still swivel in, under...

Hinges: Much depends on what type you intend using, but if they are close to a corner, you can simply drill into the edge and let in a dowel at right angles to the hinge screws. I do it in softwood when I need to put a screw into end grain, and it works well. On a jewellery box scale, I'd...

Ho Yuss! :-)

I have one Halfords open-ended set bought years ago with the opposite problem - it has lumps on the tips, possibly because it was too long in the plating bath, but it might just have been badly machined*. That means you can't slide over a nut along the axis of the spanner, which is really...